I read that the volume serial number is a combination of the date and time that the volume was formatted. I have tried a number of sources to find out how to convert the VSN into the date and time, but I have not been able to find any information. The only tool that I can find is one which allows you to change the volume serial number. I tried a tool called "DCODE" but it doesn't work. Here is my volume serial number:

E210BAB019BAB004

Is there a way to convert this to date and time?

I know that when I used the "volume" command at the DOS prompt, it gave me a 32-bit number as the serial number. I used Active@DiskEditor and it gave me this larger number as the volume serial number.

forget about 64 bit, the volume serial no. is designed in the 1950sread chapter 28 herenote: if the date and time on the local computer was incorrect you will not able to get it right, i.e. you'll get the local date and time it was on the computer at the time of formating the drive

NOTE: When you use the DIR command and others inside of a CMD/DOS-box under Windows 2000/XP, it will show a Volume Serial Number composed of only the last four bytes of this Long Long Word [B4A4E199A4E15DFC]!

Example:

C:\>dir Volume in drive C is Win2000 Volume Serial Number is A4E1-5DFC

Obviously, we must look into this further to find out how all these bytes are being used by the Operating System!

It is interesting to note how the (3rd and 4th) and (6th and 7th) bytes repeat here! Do you have a Serial Number where these two sets of bytes are not the same?

You can use a disc editor such as DMDE (freeware) to view and edit the boot sector.

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